Reflections on language evolution : : From minimalism to pluralism / / Cedric Boeckx.
This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic tradition most explicitly oriented towards biology ("biolinguistics") appears increasingly implausible. This te...
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Superior document: | Conceptual Foundations of Language Science |
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Place / Publishing House: | [s.l.] : : Language Science Press,, 2021. |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Conceptual Foundations of Language Science
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